Royal Variations
Royal Variations gives the vanilla mobs it touches enhanced royal versions that have their own abilities, larger drops and a slightly harder fight in survival worlds.
What it does
The mod adds royal variants of several vanilla mobs. Each royal mob keeps the general behavior of its regular counterpart but has increased stats, its own abilities and a higher amount of experience and drops, among which are new items that each have a separate use. The royal zombie knights nearby zombies and marks its target as a Chosen Victim, the royal skeleton shoots marking arrows and nets its opponents, and the royal creeper can set nearby monsters to detonate on a timer while staying dangerous itself.
Royal Variations depends on Curios API, which must be installed on the same side as the mod. Just Enough Items and Just Enough Effect Descriptions are optional and only add recipe and effect lookups when present. Servers that run it need every player to install it too. Forge and NeoForge files exist for 1.20.1 and 1.21.1, and the license is All rights reserved, so the code is not open source. Mob spawning can be adjusted in the config file.
Key features
Royal zombie
Spawns with two regular zombies, knights them with iron weapons or a Royal Knight Helmet, and grants a short-cooldown defense effect.
Royal skeleton
Fires stronger bow shots that apply a Mark, and throws a net that briefly immobilizes a target until it is torn with a sword.
Royal creeper
Can grant a delayed Time Bomb to nearby monsters and inflicts a Dazed effect on the player, reducing movement and damage.
Royal drops
Each royal mob yields more experience and drops, including new items that each have their own use.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Optional 2
How it compares
Variating Mobs is also a Forge and NeoForge mod for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 with a client and server environment, but it is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license and is not open source. Custom Mobs is Forge only and covers 1.20.1 – 1.20.6, with the same environment and an All rights reserved license.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Variations | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-01-27 |
| Variating Mobs | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-09-06 |
| Custom Mobs | Forge | 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 | Client and server | 2026-06-17 |
Questions
Does Royal Variations need Curios API?
Which loaders and versions are supported?
Can the spawning of royal mobs be changed?
In the catalog
Royal Variations is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,527 Mobs mods for Forge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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Royal Variations - a small mod that adds enhanced royal variations of vanilla mobs with their own characteristics and unique drops. All the mobs you will periodically encounter in the world, each has its own abilities and an increased amount of xp and drops, among which there are new items, each with its own use. The…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/royalvariations
- Owner
- Mongoose_artist
- Published
- 2026-01-16
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-01-27
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15